Chapter 80: VHS is history

Qin Weimin put down the lunch box and stared at Su Yuanshan: "I don't agree with your statement. ”

"Why?"

Qin Weimin said in a deep voice: "Because the premise of playing this trick is that we can't hold our breath, I don't think Sony will make this kind of mistake of pinning hopes on the opponent's mistakes." ”

Chen Jing smiled and nodded, obviously, she also thought that Sony would not underestimate her people to such an extent.

Su Yuanshan nodded and smiled: "Well, Senior Brother is right. But what if they have the confidence to keep us down?"

Chen Jing was stunned and immediately looked at him again.

Su Yuanshan took a sip of the water cup and buckled the disposable lunch box. His eyes fell on the lunch box and said slowly: "Compared with Yuanxin, Sony has a deeper technical precipitation than us. If we hadn't achieved leapfrog development through accurate foresight in the past year, we would not be qualified to sit at the negotiating table with a company like Sony, even if our pants were gone. ”

"So we can't underestimate Sony, especially Sony's R&D level, because we have achieved a little bit for the time being. ”

"Until just now, I have been thinking that they should have black technology or reliance on VCD that we don't know about for the time being. ”

Chen Jing was slightly stunned: "Black technology?

"It's the advanced technology that suddenly popped up, the word invented by Xiaoshan. Qin Weimin explained to her, and looked at Su Yuanshan again: "Why isn't there black technology on the host or chip?"

"On the console side, they do have a certain amount of technology. After all, I learned so seriously when I worked with Nintendo......"

The crowd laughed.

"But this technology must not compensate for the demand placed on us"

"The YX01 chip is currently the strongest chip in the field of reduced instruction set, and in this regard, they can only use the YX01 to eliminate their disadvantages with the fact that YX01 is not yet mature, but that is meaningless. ”

Su Yuanshan forgot what the model of the PS chip was, but he remembered very well that the CPU and display core used by PS were not his own, and he didn't start customizing it himself until PS was successful and used it on PS2.

You must know that the set of design + tape-out is time-consuming and laborious, not to mention, it also costs money. Sony has suffered serious losses in recent years because of the film industry, and the financial situation of the entire group is not very good. There's really no reason to design two brand new chips for a new product that hasn't been tested in the market.

"What's more, Ken Kutaragi led the team to show that they attach great importance to the development of game consoles, and don't forget that he is in charge of working with Nintendo......"

"So, if they want black technology, they must be in VCD, or ......" Su Yuanshan squinted his eyes and said softly: "I don't know if you know, two years ago, the Western film and television industry proposed to develop a new medium to get rid of the current laser discs and home video recorders." Immediately after that, the MPEG group released the MPEG1 compression format to test the waters. ”

"We know that MPEG1 uses lossy compression - here I won't mention its algorithm implementation, when I read the standard with Li Mingliu last year, I simply calculated, only need to modify the compression algorithm, can meet the requirements of the film and television industry, but the capacity of the disc needs to be increased. ”

"There are only two ways to increase the capacity of the disc, one is to increase the density, and the other is to increase the diameter of the disc - but if the diameter is increased, it will face the same dilemma as LD, stupid and stupid and shockproof, anyway, 10,000 shortcomings. As a giant in the field of optical drives and optical discs, Sony is on par with Philips and Toshiba, and we have reason to believe that they have a deep technical precipitation in the field of optical discs. ”

"I guess they think they can quickly come up with a new product to get rid of VCDs. ”

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he looked at everyone: "I said it clearly enough, right?"

“...... We're not stupid. Chen Jing took out a tissue and slowly wiped her mouth: "Then I have to ask if the MPEG organization is working on a new algorithm." ”

"Yes, I'll call Senior Brother Xi when I get back. ”

Su Yuanshan walked to the trash can with the lunch box, and turned to face Chen Jing: "We don't have so much time to grind with them, I'll come tomorrow and directly open the cards they hid." ”

Chen Jing's eyebrows were slightly bent: "Okay!"

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According to the arrangement, Zhang Ke should have taken Sony's people around and visited in the afternoon. But Ken Kutaragi politely declined his invitation, saying that they were going to take a break at the hotel.

Of course, the people of Yuanxin did not have to rest, after all, they still had work to do. Especially Chen Jing, she also has to arrange for campus recruitment in Beijing in May.

The next morning, Xi Xiaoding called Su Yuanshan back, saying that he hadn't heard any action from the MPEG organization. However, the film production industry advisory committee over there was very impulsive when it saw the VCD coming out, and brought up the vision from two years ago.

Now Su Yuanshan has the bottom in his heart.

When the two sides sat down again, Chen Jing still started a happy scene first.

"Mr. Jiuta, are we still discussing VCD today? If you still don't budge at all, I suggest that we can change places and talk slowly while enjoying the mountains and rivers, so that we can fulfill the friendship of landlords. ”

Kutaragi Ken smiled and shook his head: "But Miss Chen Jing, your VCD really has no advantage in the market of developed countries. Although it is a new product, it is also a backward product. ”

At this time, Su Yuanshan smiled slightly: "I'm sorry, excuse me." Can I understand that you are expecting a product that goes beyond VCD image quality and capacity?"

When the translator came, Kutaragi Ken's eyes suddenly froze.

And long before Su Yuanshan's words fell, Junichi Akita, who was beside Ken Kutaragi, looked at Su Yuanshan suddenly.

"The decoding chip for the VCD was designed by the team I led. Su Yuanshan turned the pen at his fingertips dexterously, although this move was a little frivolous, but it happened to be in line with his age: "Frankly speaking, after reading the technical documentation of MPEG, I knew that this video standard has no advantage over VHS, but we still chose VCD technology." Why?"

At this time, Junichi Akita looked at Su Yuanshan and asked directly in Chinese, "Why?"

Su Yuanshan smiled: "Because I don't know when you, Philips, Toshiba, etc. will be able to develop high-density discs." ”

When the translation was over, Su Yuanshan saw that the corners of Kutara Mujian's eyes shrank slightly.

Su Yuanshan's heart was settled.

Sure enough, these guys have accumulated skills. Otherwise, in the previous life, it would not have been in 94 when the MPEG2 standard came out, and a bunch of guys who worked on discs made DVD discs in less than a year.

"Now that we've thought of this, ...... Why does Mr. Kuda think that our VCD technology will not cover ...... What about high-density disc reading and playback devices?"

"Mr. Kuta, trust me. If we work together, we can develop a common codec rules that are suitable for high-density disc playback devices, as well as the technical rules of the whole machine. But before that, VCD needs to be used as a test product, and its role is not to replace VHS, but to collect the copyright of image products and fill the VHS market. And let people realize that the future audio-visual world belongs to the world of optical discs. ”

"VHS should be a thing of the past. ”

"If we don't wake up to this, we're going to be history. ”

Su Yuanshan threw away the pen, and the whole person relaxed.

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